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...Gleason is one of that kind of thinkers who class all radicals as revolutionary, and, therefore, below contempt, "radical outbursts" being something to discredit and suppress as dangerous to our constitution, he is one of those gentlemen who sit on the safety valve of social unrest and compress the steam of "radicalism" into real revolution. A consideration of problems, not a contemptuous labelling of all bubbling of the cauldron as "radical outbursts," is perhaps what we most need...
...claim that it is the duty of everyone to get as much college education as possible before being called away, but it is a point that cannot be too much insisted upon. The majority of undergraduates come of age some time in their junior year and so must compress a great deal into a small space. It is well worth while to get within striking distance of a degree, for no one can tell what the future will bring, in regard to the relation of academic and military work. Those who can stay to the end of their junior year...
...These long courses in short terms, the attempt to keep the University under full steam through the moist heat of a Chicago summer, the encouragement given to the student to compress four years' work into three years - the whole scheme breathes that nervous, restless haste which is one of the most deplorable features of American life; and when our universities come to forget that "school" means leisure, and that high-thinking cannot be hurried, one of the last safeguards against the national vice of over-pressure will be lost...
...plan should be adopted, our students would form two distinct sets-those who would compress three and a half years work into three years, and those who would spread three and a half over four years. As both sets would be taught in the same classes, there could be no accommodation of the severity of the courses to either. The desire to do three and a half years work in three years would tend to encourage the choice of studies which demand easier work or have less dangerous examinations. This evil already puts the courses which demand severe and continuous...
...Chicago: Callaghan & Co.). The author apologizes for consenting to its appearance in this country. It is, he says, but a sketch, written as part of a larger book for German readers - Marquardsen's 'Handbuch des Oeffentlichen Rechts.' - He was limited, moreover, to a very inadequate space, and had to compress his material unduly, and wholly to throw out much; and 'my only literary resources were my private library and the notes previously taken in the British Museum and American libraries.' These explanations are, indeed, helpful in getting at the right point of view for judging of the book...